It's gone from "Can it run Crysis?" to "can I have a midlife crisis?"

@Matthew_Fog

3 жыл бұрын

Good one

@Gilmore74

3 жыл бұрын

This old gamer certainly could lol

@violent_bebop9687

3 жыл бұрын

time for and UPGRADE......

@dramalexi

3 жыл бұрын

Nah it's still quarter life crisis. Still have to wait for Crisis reremastered.

@AleK0451

3 жыл бұрын

@@dramalexi mack is definitely at midlife

True Crysis story. The game was impressive back in 2007. I'd just booted it up and was on the beach in the opening scene. My wife walked in the room and I showed her the graphics. I explained you could interact with everything. At that moment, a turtle was walking by. I duly picked up the turtle. Then I realized I had no idea how to "drop" rather than "throw" to put it down again. I ended up launching this completely harmless turtle across the map and smashing it into a rock! My wife shook her head and walked away :-D Dead turtles aside, it was a great game even with its well known problems. I can't believe they screwed it up a second time.

Sorry for the lack of content this last 2 weeks, took a few days off to enjoy the last of the summer and was not well for a few days which added up to a couple of weeks out the loop. Got a few vids lined up for next week including Serious Sam 4 which am really looking forward to playing :) So business as usual from now until Christmas :)

@bunkerbill

3 жыл бұрын

Ah Serious Sam! Yes!

@krisdeathgungaming9165

3 жыл бұрын

Quite right. We will all be locked down again soon. Take it while you can.

@Rincewindcl

3 жыл бұрын

You dont need to apologise Mack. Thanks for the quality videos man.

@That_nigga

3 жыл бұрын

Quality over quantity Mack. If you need to take a break from making content, take one.

@WorthABuyreviews

3 жыл бұрын

@There will be Changes Yes Medieval Dynasty looks really fun

"Can it run crysis?" 13 years later "Still no"

@MiguelBaptista1981

3 жыл бұрын

Aye can't help to hear that in me head with a Scottish accent.

@JAnx01

3 жыл бұрын

What an interesting twist!

@BomimoDK

3 жыл бұрын

more like "well, yes. but actually no."

@selecks6462

3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist, my PC was never the problem

@PietKonijn1980

3 жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard after reading this comment, thx! :D

Feels like they released this like this just for the refreshed memes and attention.

@h1tzzYT

3 жыл бұрын

Its a cash grab, that doesnt even look that impressive with its outdated models and oversaturated color palette

@phizmeister

3 жыл бұрын

@@h1tzzYT It's a game from 2006 putting to shame most games even today. Saying it doesn't look that impressive shows that you are a stupid muppet.

@AA-xm7rt

3 жыл бұрын

@@phizmeister i Think hé means the original game was already impressive but it didn't improve it got worse.

@soheelegb6851

3 жыл бұрын

@@phizmeister the remaster isnt that good for a remaster of crysis since you know every crysis game was the absolute best graphically by the date of release

@KennyChu

3 жыл бұрын

@@AA-xm7rt Can it run Crysis?

So it's actually just Crysis Re-released ...

@dustyshackleford6772

3 жыл бұрын

It's Crysis: console edition, and we'll release it on PC to get some sales from unsuspecting Crysis fans

@B1itz

3 жыл бұрын

@@Abhishek-fe3zs no, a remaster suggests some form of improvement over the original

@B1itz

3 жыл бұрын

@@Abhishek-fe3zs so not just a re-release then?

@B1itz

3 жыл бұрын

@@dustyshackleford6772 haha yep, 100% shitty cash grab

@tillmannfischer

3 жыл бұрын

@@Abhishek-fe3zs Wow, a texture patch. Not like there's been thousands of those, most of which in even better quality, on various mod sites.

This remaster is an absolute crysis.

@Koozwad

3 жыл бұрын

Climate 'crisis'? Corona 'crisis'? Crysis Remastered is the real crisis.

@bengejuknowit3048

3 жыл бұрын

For Crysis sake!

@Row468

3 жыл бұрын

Stop cry sister

I played a couple of levels of the original Cryis yesterday for old times sake and yes you can lean left and right.

@arnox4554

3 жыл бұрын

Ok, it is pretty damn weird that they removed leaning in the Remastered version, but I'm just gonna say it. You don't need to lean in Crysis. The way the suit modes are designed (at least on normal difficulty) is quite good, and with Speed mode, you can wreck some shit. Fucking hell, the Cloak mode alone is pretty much an "I win" button. If you need leaning to win skirmishes on top of all the other tools you're given in the game, most notably the suit powers of course, I don't think you have any business playing Crysis. This isn't Insurgency Sandstorm. Not that it excuses all the other bullshit that's going on with this game that I quite agree with Mack about though. Fuck the Epic Games Store.

@arnox4554

3 жыл бұрын

@Boros Vita There is one important thing though that's a huge problem with the original and will always be. No support whatsoever for multiple CPU cores.

@arnox4554

3 жыл бұрын

@Boros Vita If you're just playing vanilla, you can definitely get away with one core, but if you want to start piling on community enhanced textures, models, geometry, and effects, then that one little core is going to implode. lol

@Ricardogs

3 жыл бұрын

@Major Gear buy the Good old games edition, without any drm, plain and simple

@Ricardogs

3 жыл бұрын

its a 2007 PC game, is a miracle it support xbox 360 gamepad and rumble, i have a original xbox 360 controller and a wireless adapter, it works ok, xbox one controller (third gen with BT) works with rumble, the only problem is the configuration, LT is circle of options of the nano, LB is sprint, RB is ADS and RT is the classic fire, autoaim is light, not so agresive like a call of duty game, the remastered is the port of 360 version, so it has a more "modern button" placement and less setup to nano (no circle of options), strengh is auto, and cloak is one button away (i don't renember if is LB or RB), sprint always full speed and also in auto and placed in L3 (like a call of duty or halo game).

They really should've made a Remake rather than a Remaster.

@psyantologist

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just beefing up texture res and adding software raytracing (lul? no wonder it runs at low double digit frames) and putting a high-CPU-load copy-protection mechanism on top just doesn't do it justice. They might remove Denuvo once the market settles around it and sales stagnate. That might add a few frames, but not alleviate the other issues. They're a bit too proud of their meme baby to really care for it like the first-born of an epic IP, which it is.

@sebastianmontoya5158

3 жыл бұрын

AAA Industry: Re-make!? That is to expensive and we have to ACTUALLY work, man. Naha! Put new textures on the fucker, cut some content and sell it as DLC's. Do not forget to hype it and charge as it was band new.

@sherlockholmes8822

3 жыл бұрын

@wolverine they kind of did make a remake when they messed up the suit functionality

@lordraptor5042

3 жыл бұрын

Look, at the end of the day, Yall are gonna bitch regardless.

And they didn't even add multi-core support to the game. The thing runs on a single core, despite there being 12 cores available.

@irishbloke99

3 жыл бұрын

da fuk? Really

@FlyboyHelosim

3 жыл бұрын

No wonder it runs like shite.

@Q-gf8vb

3 жыл бұрын

It was made with the thought we'd be using single and dual cores at outrageous speeds, not having 6, 8, 12, etc. cores. Or so I've heard.

For anyone who is interested, leaning is back in the game. A couple of other things too, like classic suit controls and quick throwing grenades.

@teresazbikowska7094

Жыл бұрын

Did they optimise it?

@user-if7zm

Жыл бұрын

@@teresazbikowska7094 I haven't checked recently.

@montiseus8463

Жыл бұрын

​@@teresazbikowska7094 Yes, it's playable now.

"It's a first person shooter... you need a high framerate when you play first person shooters..." *Laughs in Arma 3*

@aidencampbell9120

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad ArmA 3 sucks

@NoNo-uy2bq

3 жыл бұрын

@@aidencampbell9120 agreed

@Applewille

2 жыл бұрын

@@aidencampbell9120 Why does it suck? I have thought of buying it for so long time, but haven't for some reason.

step 1: get a good pc to play all the games on max step 2: run crysis remastered at medium settings step 3: replay old games you know and love

@SUBZERO-rd5oq

3 жыл бұрын

I am enjoying Team Fortress 2 significantly more than I have on MW (2019).

@ishtiak14

3 жыл бұрын

@@SUBZERO-rd5oq Same.

@lightskin7627

3 жыл бұрын

@Aaron K the worse MW single player campaign by far is MW3 the best MW game is MW2, 2019 MW Is somewhere in the middle

@AlphaGarg

3 жыл бұрын

@Aaron K Step 6: Calm down once you realise the PC you bought can get you into a lot of hobbies and jobs that may or may not be related to gaming, unlike the game box with paid online

@tehdanny682

3 жыл бұрын

Too true. I recently bought a decent used graphics card, but I'm just sittin' playin' Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and The Settlers 3.

Honestly I expected more , this looks like a well done mod .

@CUSTARDP00DLETK

3 жыл бұрын

not even. Original crysis 1 mods run way better than this shit.

@markoliimatainen2565

3 жыл бұрын

@@CUSTARDP00DLETK Because this has some cpu effects and this remastered is still sameway bottlenecked by single core performance. Thats why this does run badly on basically every modern computer. Maybe if you have overclocked 9900k, then you might get 60+frames on max settings. Thats why this remastered cant never be a benchmark game as only thing it can actually benchmark is single core performance.

@AksamRafiz

3 жыл бұрын

@@markoliimatainen2565 you would think they would be ashamed of their lackluster optimization but they had the audacity to provide us a "can it run crysis".

Dev 1: Game is poorly optimised, how can we fix it? Dev 2: Hmmm... add Denuvo? Dev 1: BINGO!

@SPL1NGYDUDE

3 жыл бұрын

the original had securom

@domasbaliulis23

3 жыл бұрын

WAT?

@THELANKANCOMRADE

3 жыл бұрын

It’s demanding. There’s no way around that. Saying it’s unoptimized is just an excuse for your bad pc.

@overgrownturnip

3 жыл бұрын

@@THELANKANCOMRADE The dude just said in the review that he has some of the best fucking hardware you can have at the moment and it runs badly. Are you dumb?

@screwball992

3 жыл бұрын

@@overgrownturnip Not only that there are better looking games out there that run far better?

Makes you wonder what they'll call the remastered remastered games in 20 years time

@mikaxms

3 жыл бұрын

ϻe̷e̷ɖɖɨ Probably just “Remastered”

@Dutchfalco

3 жыл бұрын

Ultra Remastered Deluxe 2050 Edition

@deathlyit7273

3 жыл бұрын

XXX: The Right Version

@carny15

3 жыл бұрын

Definitive Edition

@keithmccormack6248

3 жыл бұрын

Crisis: The 2040 Money Grab.

Kinda defeats the point of a remaster if they haven't tried to optimise it for modern hardware.

@grahamt19781

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@grahamt19781

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@TT-lu5gt

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@jakobandersen3944

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@jimmyjab190

3 жыл бұрын

Meh

Denuvo might be the thing causing the problems. I remember buying Bayonetta with Denuvo and it ran at 10-15fps on a gtx1060, then I obtained a copy without Denuvo and it never fell below 60fps.

@PHeMoX

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but if they can't even fix that, a problem that has existed on the original Crysis for decades now (it won't run on Win 10 due to the DRM system), it sure as heck isn't worth 30 euros. I 100% agree you are probably correct, but there's a reason why people who own the game on Steam have been playing pirated copies for years now.

@mire873

3 жыл бұрын

Supposedly the game only uses 1 to 2 cores still.

@anasevi9456

3 жыл бұрын

do you have a shite 4 threaded i3/i5? if you own one of those cpu's you do not get to complain about bad performance after 2016. Get an I7, a modern i5, or even Ryzen R5 or shut it. My point being Crytek like bioware and blizzard, have rotted to a crap outfit, and this wankery is them taking pay to get people to buy RTX 3080s.

@Edmundostudios

3 жыл бұрын

Ana Sevi Why would these companies care about what GPU you have surely they would want the game to be more accessible?

@somecallmetim42

3 жыл бұрын

@@PHeMoX I tried out the original Crysis on a PC I've recently upgraded to Windows 10 and it ran just fine.

The fact that this is sold for 30 euros is a legit crime

@Woupsme

3 жыл бұрын

It's only €20 in Denmark... But I think I'll wait for the Steam release with all the fixes and patches implemented

@jackoberto01

3 жыл бұрын

@@Woupsme Don't even bother just play the original through GOG (GOG is already 64-Bit version) and you'll have a much better experience The remaster lacks many quality of life features from the original and is built of the inferior console port

Guys!! They just wanted to recreate that feeling, like back in the day in 2007! With those freezes and slowdowns 😎

@umadesume2864

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, totally not an excuse to not work on the game and release an unoptomized piece of shit!

@johnpatz8395

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh Boi you might want to look up the word “sarcasm.”

@umadesume2864

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnpatz8395 eh, wait what? I should be saying that to you mate

It's kind of pathetic that they intentionally try to break the game for the sake of a 13 year old meme.

@lwaves

3 жыл бұрын

Just said a similar thing myself. That top setting only exists so they can keep that meme applied to this game.

@BrotherO4

3 жыл бұрын

Ray tracing is not easy to run. turn it off.

@darken2417

3 жыл бұрын

I think its okay for a laugh. I don't see a difference if very high was going to be the max setting without the can you run crisis setting. Having the can you run crisis setting theoretically is just an extra setting that people with elite pcs can play on. But I'm sure optimization is lacking making this worse.

@lwaves

3 жыл бұрын

@@darken2417 From what I've read about the top setting, even the elite PC's with the newest cards can't handle it. It supposedly turns off LOD, so everything is at full quality all the way to the furthest distance. It's ridiculous.

@darken2417

3 жыл бұрын

@@lwaves I have a potato pc so I just chalk this all up to us needing to "git gud" by upgrading beyond our limits : p (minus the usual optimization issues with new releases including remasters)

A shame they wanted to continue the benchmark test meme instead of optimising.

they sadly missed the boat ... would have been a great show case of how they have improved visuals/tech, and wowed us all again .. .

For anyone watching this review years later: The Remasters is VASTLY better now. Leaning reimplemented. Classic suit controls reimplemented. VTOL mission reimplemented. Vegetation physics now at proper fps. RT is even better with the Boost option. Performance is VASTLY better. It now in fact runs better than the original game with better visuals. Quick Save/Load can be implemented via console commands. Motion blur still isn't as good as the original's DX10 implementation. The CPU optimization is now divine. The game also now has DLSS2. RT is still only hardware acceleration on RTX cards. Any other card can use RT, but only in software mode.

@rasenche4562

Жыл бұрын

Just what i wanted to hear

It’s not a remaster if features are taken away. It’s a demake.

Your reviews crack me up. You're breath of fresh air thankyou!

@B10HAZARD.

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. He's the most honest and down to earth reviewer on youtube.

Kinda happy that all these games coming out on the Epic store are turning out kinda shit, means I'm not missing out on anything lol

@0verWay

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, cuz they don't have to actually seriously work on the games anymore, given they already got their exclusive money. Good riddance. Let Epic (Fail) Store die.

@KreKeriS911

3 жыл бұрын

Yeap and year later you can get the game fixed on steam with decent discount.

@slothz5063

3 жыл бұрын

You all talk like epic store is cancer. Steam takes 30 % revenue, I close my case.

@AzariusR

3 жыл бұрын

@@slothz5063 Sure, but every other services also charges 30% and Steam do charge lesser if the game sells well. Not to mention Epic engaged in timed exclusivity in PC platform where there shouldn't be anything like it.

@0verWay

3 жыл бұрын

@@slothz5063 Epic Simp detected.

They never fixed the ONE issue that the original had: only utilizing one thread on the CPU. They had one job with this remaster and that was it. Hard pass on this one.

@jackoberto01

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh they should've remade the game and realesed it with DX12 which is so much better at utilizing multiple threads than DX11

@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716

3 жыл бұрын

Didnt they fix that on crysis 2 10 years ago

@Beastw1ck

3 жыл бұрын

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 They did. Different version of CryEngine.

@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716

3 жыл бұрын

@@Beastw1ck and they didn't use that version of the engine because.....

@Beastw1ck

3 жыл бұрын

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 as far as I know you can't just "switch engines". That would be a remake, not a remaster.

Bloody Epic store..bah

@fatknacker46

3 жыл бұрын

Another game that deserves the Epic Shite Store. Partners in grime...

@pilouuuu

3 жыл бұрын

Let's hope it gets released on Steam in 2021 in a decent state.

@jamessalvatore7054

3 жыл бұрын

immediately no buy.

@akooma3694

3 жыл бұрын

piratebay..bah

@reaper378

3 жыл бұрын

Darcek BlueEyes I’ve not seen steam giving loads of games away ...

A 2080 should be running this above 100 FPS.

@valkir293

3 жыл бұрын

Not with raytracing on it won't.

The original even looks better in a lot of ways, hardly a remaster

@Christian-oi7sd

3 жыл бұрын

@Vanargand yeah lol more like re tarded

I'd like to Imagine Mack's hell is playing Crysis Remastered... on the Nintendo Switch - inferior graphics - console controls - less buttons I would pay to see that.

@AleK0451

3 жыл бұрын

hell is sitting on a couch around a nintendo switch with only nintendo fanboys next to you and the only game is smash bros

@sol7967

3 жыл бұрын

@@AleK0451 Imagine the smell.....

Just to clarify for you Mack, the original game also had an option to bind the nanosuit modes to any key you want and you can lean. Played the OG game just now to make sure.

The developers seemingly revelling in the fact that their game is completely un optimised by adding 'can it run Crysis' setting. Rather than gloat about it they should be ashamed.

@CoffeeConnected

3 жыл бұрын

That just exemplifies hubris. It sounds like they put that joke in there at the start of development in full confidence that they'd nail the performance issues by the time they'd completed the project. If they thought that they could afford to slip an ironic joke in there to highlight the original's performance problems, and you still can't play the remaster properly on the lower settings, not only is it a remaster fail it's also a joke fail.

@fl4shblade

3 жыл бұрын

"The “Can it Run Crysis?” setting is designed as a future-proofed benchmark. It includes unlimited view distances, no LOD changes, and more detailed shadows, which will strain every last bit of performance from your hardware, and indeed, future hardware. We hope PC gamers around the world will love this opportunity to play a game that will push hardware technology to its limits, including experiencing ray tracing in Crysis."

@jackoberto01

3 жыл бұрын

@@fl4shblade The problem with it though is how bad the engine is at utilizing multiple threads this remaster is just as outdated as the original was ahead of it's time And the lack of DX12 (which has been out for 5 years now) just absolutely destroys the thought of any future proofing

@fl4shblade

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackoberto01 actually i have to retract this statement. it has come to my knowledge that this remaster is not even based on the pc version. it is some frankenstein between the pc 2006 demo and the xbox version. it will never be able to run better because it will never be able to use more than 8 gb of vram and there is nothing they can do about it because the pc source code is gone!

I've heard of the problems this remaster has before i went and watched your video. I for sure wanted to hear your take on this and i'm glad i did. thanks for the great videos as always!

It's been more than 10 years that I've played through Crysis and I still remember every scene and fight Mack showed in his video review!! I can hardly believe it but I suppose that's the mark of a great game!

Byck then whe said "can it run Crysis?" But really we should say "Can they even optimize the game?" ...it rules for double this time.

It's kind of weird to me that a company would embrace the fact that their original game was an unoptimized shit storm...and then act like its a cool thing.

@user-hu9ft5qr1k

3 жыл бұрын

It was very well optimized, it's just that the hardware wasn't ready yet for the highest settings.

@CryoStrider

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-hu9ft5qr1k ...and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself!

@somnorila9913

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-hu9ft5qr1k And i think this is what happening right now too. It's not about optimization or that they couldn't polish it properly, but rather they made is more as a symbol, embracing the "Can it run Crysis?" thing. So they basically made a playable benchmark and not really a remaster for you to enjoy playing. And i think it's only suited for this game to be this way. As this is its soul, its meaning now. So it will be playable at max settings in a few years in the future when hardware performance will be better. Until then: Can it run Crysis?

@Plague_Doc22

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-hu9ft5qr1k No it wasn't. It had high requirements but it didnt scale well at all with new gpus and so on. They didnt intend to make a game that was unplayable for the majority at higher settings for years upon years. That's an extremely dumb way of selling a product as it limits the market. They just had a shitty optimized game.

@user-hu9ft5qr1k

3 жыл бұрын

@@CryoStrider Yes another one, it was so well optimized that they made a version for consoles!!!! I even think that Crytek is one of the best company for optimisation and for coding engines.

Man, I remember spending hours on the Demo back when it brought my rig to it's knee's in the Summer of 2007. It had a huge modding scene, too! My steam hours count out to around 350+ and christ knows how many on the non-steam release.

It doesn't come with the vtol/plane level called "Ascension". So it is exactly like the Xbox 360/PS3 version in that regard.

@screwball992

3 жыл бұрын

Plot Twist: The game is actually a port of the console version hence no leaning left or right 🤣

@jackoberto01

3 жыл бұрын

@@screwball992 It actually is 😂

Very disappointed with this game, whats the point of having to turn off all the stuff that makes this game a viable remaster just to get it to run, you may as well just play the original. So instead of saying turn off this and that, how about "Devs fix your damn game" The recommended specs are well below my own yet it runs so badly, it's time gamers stopped turning stuff off and started refunding games and telling the devs to get their damn house in order. It's not acceptable to release a £27 game that is 13 years old that runs so badly even on a system above the recommended specs. It also has no save game, it's totally checkpoint controlled which am sure was not the case in the original, this proved so frustrating when the game crashes or you get stuck in a hole and need to reload last checkpoint. So yet again, could have been great but turned out poor, how many times do we have to say that in 2020 :(

@docdoom1987

3 жыл бұрын

Yo, Doom Eternal looked gorgeous and ran great on nearly anything. There's just no excuse after seeing that earlier in the same year.

@TheLuri89

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah true, no free saving. And yeah i think you could lean in the original one with Q and E, dont understand why this is not included. What do you think about the A.I.? Some korean soldiers are completely lack of A.I. Standing there and they do nothing

@54syqe

3 жыл бұрын

aaaaaand this is why they took the upfront epic store payout, because they knew the game was fked and people on steam would ask for refunds. Typical modern day developers,

@Robert048

3 жыл бұрын

@@docdoom1987 Did you just say "Yo" to Mack? He's probably going to want to talk to you about heat and rep, now.

@emdea

3 жыл бұрын

m8 you were playing with Ray Tracing on... No game runs great with ray tracing on right now. That was the only option you needed to turn off. The SVOGI lighting and all the rest of the effects are fine and they do give you the remaster feel

Damn shame, I was looking forward to this...

Ohhh yeahhhh I was hoping you would review this

I’ve just discovered your fantastic channel😂 this is amazing

I think the devs haven't heard of occlusion culling for all of that dense vegetation.

Fanboys excuse will be "it's Crysis it's supposed to be hard to run"

06:07 seeing how badass you look in the nano suit in the reflection of the weapon crates... worth the slideshow 🤷‍♂️👌

Good to have a Mack Video been like a week mate , hope your well

"Denuvo" Do not want.

If a game is Epic exclusive then it immediately is not worth a buy to me.

@austinc4029

3 жыл бұрын

Anno 1800 though

@SilverAru

3 жыл бұрын

@@austinc4029 That is a Uplay game

@walker2006au

3 жыл бұрын

Because? Just on the bandwagon?

@hardcorehardware361

3 жыл бұрын

@@walker2006au For me I don't like their store its buggy also no reviews? Another thing is their business practices, I don't know about you but I take issue with Games being locked to one launcher like the new Medal of Honour VR being locked to the oculus quest 2. Its anti consumer and gives us less choice imo. BUT That is my OPINION!

@walker2006au

3 жыл бұрын

@@hardcorehardware361 fair enough. I prefer professional reviews and there is always metacritic. Steam is full or review bombs by SJWs. They pay independent devs more then other DRMs and in a cut throat industry without regulations and high suicide rates. More money to devs and the little people the better. At the end of the day the game works and I enjoy it 🤷

You are 100% correct about leaning in the original. You also had the option to lie prone as well as a normal crouch.

@RadiantNova159

3 жыл бұрын

You can prone in this one too

@richardhewit215

3 жыл бұрын

@@RadiantNova159 Thing is, back in '07, mine ran great and I can't even remember what chip and card i had.

Man this year gets 1000 remasters

Ooooh yeah, I remember when Crysis 1 was released, going down to the local department store @ 4a on Black Friday because they were having a huge sale at the time and greedily picked up a copy. There were a few bugs, but nothing game breaking at least until I got to the town where I was supposed to meet back up with Psycho. That was where the game broke for me. Interesting because I had a middling to hot AMD processor that was actually handling the game better than people who put together top end systems specifically to handle Crysis maxed out. Went to EA's tech site to find out what was going on and if any patches were in the works. That was when I got treated so poorly by one of their techs that to this day I absolutely refuse to buy any new releases or pre-releases of ANY game unless it has a healthy discount, and EA in particular a minimum 6 mo waiting period AND on sale. In short the tech I talked to basically said "The game works fine for me so you must be an idiot"! Apparently I wasn't the only one he was doing that too either. Told him to go fuck himself, that I ran a successful IT contracting service, and that EA needed to toss his happy ass to the curb right then and there. Turned out then the game was poorly optimized (where have we heard that before) and not ready for prime time. Interestingly I had a similar problem when EA released Star Wars TOR a couple of years later.

Crytek games, whilst fun are always poorly optimized. Unfortunately this is mistaken for a measurement of PCs capabilities. At least now hardware is powerful enough to expose this crap.

@RadiantNova159

3 жыл бұрын

@PiousCoding its from 2007 it is over a decade old

@RadiantNova159

3 жыл бұрын

@PiousCoding its from 2007 it is over a decade old

@gtabro1337

3 жыл бұрын

No so sure about this, I had a decent - just decent - laptop when Crysis 3 was out and I managed to play it smoothly at High settings.

@Edmundostudios

3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t play the first game back in the day but I could easily max out Crysis 2 on a gtx 770 and Crysis 3 looked amazing even at low settings.

7:10 expert level camping Mack. 😂 Great review as always sir. 🙂👍

I love you man. The best game reviews on you tube hands down.

This game doesn't even look that good, Red Dead Redemption 2 looks way better and that runs amazingly on a 2080

@_synt3rax_437

3 жыл бұрын

Only after getting patched because it run like a pile of shit on launch day and weeks later XD

@stilo2703

3 жыл бұрын

This game looks no better than battlefield 4 which came out in 2013

@mesicek7

3 жыл бұрын

RDR 2 is a new game while this is just a REMASTER. If it was a REBOOT it would be built up from scratch. All they did was just add some eye candy and resolution upscale not to mention removing some stuff that was in the original game

@synthpotato

3 жыл бұрын

@@_synt3rax_437 not gonna deny that, That launch experience was oof, works well now tho

@synthpotato

3 жыл бұрын

@@mesicek7 that's the thing, it shouldn't run this badly at all considering it's a bad remaster

This is honestly the greatest review ever. I'm dying. So funny. Wish I could like twice. Can't wait for the memes.

the true crisis experience, having to run on lower settings to enjoy the game... i remember my mom had bought it for me as a gift back in 2007 and my computer couldn't even run past the menu given the game's demands.. three years later i had a laptop which allowed me to enjoy the game only on the lowest settings. It's a stellar game though (before the aliens show up), i must have replayed the first few levels a hundred times.

My first FPS and still one of my favourites

Crysis, the game so intensive you can't even run it on hardware 13 years later. They must have had supercomputers in their studios, or they were from the future or something

@johnwest5957

3 жыл бұрын

They made bad design decisions assuming future hardware would be compatible. Like insane clockspeeds for CPU, when they put Crysis on the 360 and PS3 they fixed that.

Denuvo literally drops frames by 30 in any game I played that had it. Once you Crack the game and play without denuvo, most games run better

@JB.zero.zero.1

3 жыл бұрын

yep - mostly

You are right about leaning. Crysis 1 had lean anywhere, Crysis 2 had an arguable more fluid leans around cover.

There's talk that the remastered is based of the 360/PS3 port which explains the no lean, missing VTOL mission, etc.

Mack when are you gonna do a Game Pass vid 👍🏻

Can it run badly optimized game? would be more appropriate setting name

I played and beat my playthrough of Crysis Remastered on my Nintendo Switch a month and a half ago which was even glitchier than your PC port! Fun fact I played it entirely in handheld mode which has less control and option availability and people complained about it crashing yet during my playthrough it only crashed on me once! The final boss was a big chore for me but on the other hand did have the blessing of checkpoints during each phase of the boss fight! It was my very first time playing and owning a Crysis game which I liked it for what it was!

It's easy to make software (games) that run slow, don't reduce to some scene budget. I think some people think it is a feat to make a game with headroom for future hardware. I think it's like more of a gesture. But what do I really know ... I'd love to see a gamedev talk about this. To me, it's great art/trick to make a good looking game that runs well (ID software's tech).

This is still a poorly optimised tech demo of a "game" I see. There are much better looking, better running games around now.

@jackoberto01

3 жыл бұрын

@Boros Vita If you want less hastle get the game on GOG where it's already patched to 64-Bit and use a Windowed Borderless program (I use Windowed Borderless Gaming) to be able to tab out without crashing the game

oh my god, they managed to botch the remaster... Thanks for the review

Sorry to hear you were unwell Mack & I hope your feeling better now... Now I may have dreamt this but then again I am pretty sure it was the " Game Developers " of Crysis that eventually came out & admitted a few year's after the first game was released & after the release of Crysis 2 that the only people who could get Crysis to run at its optimum best was the game developers themselves & even then they had to use some serious hardware to get this game to work properly... We come to 2020 & this game by the sounds of it (by Mack's opinion) still has issues 13 years later... WTF! In 2007 & after waiting during its ongoing development & the hype that surround Crysis this was one of thee games (apart from Half Life 1 & 2) that I was so looking forward to playing, but in the end it was the final straw that broke the camel's back for me as far as Pc Gaming was concerned... I respect whatever format any gamer plays on as I'm not a Pc or Console Zealot that backs just the Pc or only 1 Console Developer & then go on to trash talk about the other gaming formats & hope that those other consoles out there eventualy go out of business... Its juvenile & we need more than 1 or 2 gaming companies vying for our custom as it levels out the playing field with regards to product costs... Those making these comments obviously dont have a clue as to how any businees works, as that business formula also applies to the gaming industry/business & if we were to see only one company making games consoles because the rest folded & we are left with " only one developer " then they would have a monopoly on the console side of the gaming market as they have no competion to make it an even playing field with regards to the cost of console's & the game's developed for it... Back On Track After buying & changing out so many of the top & most expensive graphics & sound cards i still couldn't get Crysis to run as smooth as i wanted it to & back then these parts weren't cheap to say the least & I'm guessing they still are expensive to buy today... So I packed my Pc away as no matter what hardware I upgrade to (which was usually every 6 months to make the most recent games play) I had enough once Crysis wouldn't run that great & at that time I had a powerhouse of a Pc but it made no difference, as Crysis just wouldn't play the way I wanted it to & even after sacrificing certain aspects in the options it still was not what I wanted... To be a Pc gamer you have to be continually upgrading your hardware & this is not cheap, or it wasn't years ago, & i respect Pc Gamers for still sticking to buying ongoing hardware, then the game's & then hoping the game plays as good as you want it to but it would seem nothing had changed since 2007... I still keep eye on the Pc side of things & have considered so many times of buying yet another Pc thst would be built for predominately gaming only but I've watched so many uploads on KZread & read on Forums that Pc Gaming & Gamers are getting shafted just as much as console gamers when it comes to the state of games released on launch day... Back when Crysis was released most if not all game's worked just fine on your Pc as long as you had it up to date with the latest hardware to run the software & I could understand having problems with a game like Crysis back then as it was pushing what the Pc vould do with this game but with Current Gen Game's across all formats I've seen & bought way too many game's that have been an absolute mess when they've went on sale on their release date & instead of getting better it's either the same or in some cases worse & to make it even worse it has more or less become the New Norm... This not acceptable in this day & age... Of course we as gamer's are always going to have some issues/bugs & glitches & we except this because games developers are & should be pushing their games to the limit, except that with the with current Gen games it has become a farsical joke & I feel as if games developers do not even care anymore about what they release come a games release date... It's not as if game's developer's don't know what hardware specs most Pc gamer's will be using & on the console side I know it can take a few year's for games developers to fully come to grips with the console's that are the current ones out at that time & if anything usually as a console that is on its way out to make room for the Next Gen Console's delivers some games that are graphically amazing & play great also because the developers know how to squeeze every once of that console's ability to play games that leave us wanting more, which will of course be available on the Next Gen Console's but not with this current gen, as it's been one bug laden game after another for most game's & as gamer's we shouldn't be accepting this & we should stop paying for games that at times are a disgrace on launch date & constantly need game update patches in the hope that they'll play better... Crysis Remastered looks like another game that I will have to wait at least a year before even thinking of buying as bug riddled games which also dont not run at their best spec has become the accepted norm & it's in my opinion not on & why after decades of being a long time gamer that I won't be investing in any New Next Gen Console's, as this current gen, has consistently shown gamers that we are being taken for granted & those developers forget they have a job because of us, as we essentially pay for their wages by buying their product but somewhere across this gen standards just went out the window & to make it worse I get a feeling that many in the Gaming Industry just don't care about what we think, yet without us gamers they would cease to have a job & their development company would soon go out of business... It's up to those that will continue on to play on their PC & Next Gen Console's that will have to do something about this or it's just going to keep getting worse & the blame will now be laid at your door as you know this is happening & that its wrong... So remind them that without you the Gamer's they are literally nothing & without you they will cease to exist as an viable ongoing productive business... Its in your hands as to how modern gaming will go on & if it ends up worse than it is now then you only have yourselves to blame as you sat back & did nothing to stop all of this to continue to happen... In light of the still ongoing coronavirus outbreak stay safe and healthy wherever you are in the world... .....

Thanks for your hard work Mack!

I actually think Crysis 2 looks more impressive than this.

@Legion849

3 жыл бұрын

Crysis 2 released in 2009 and still looks better than this lazy cash grab. They knew if it was on Steam it would flop hard so that's why it's an Epic exclusive.

@jackoberto01

3 жыл бұрын

Yes cause this is basically Crysis 2007 with very small improvements

@JoshMC2000

2 жыл бұрын

@@Legion849 honestly Crysis 3 still looks dam good when put next to games relased in recent years

Your a legend mate I buy every game you say is good

I am deeply disappointed he didn't sing "the hymn" when he said you can't bind weapons due to the console design.

Thanks for all the videos bud!

It’s a faithful remaster. It runs just as badly now as it did back then. LOL

@jackoberto01

3 жыл бұрын

In that aspect yes but the gameplay has somehow become worse

Why did I know the second he said "epic store", that this is going to be a shitshow of a game? Dodging reviews like its their job, great start. Sad to see such a legendary game get the "we need money, here have this re-release of our old game" type of treatment.

@johnpatz8395

3 жыл бұрын

Derrick Hayden I’m not one to defend Epic, but I have to be honest and point out that Steam isn’t exactly known for only releasing high quality games to it’s store.

@WhyAreYouGhe

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnpatz8395 You missed the point entirely. On steam you have USER reviews. If game is dogshit you can SEE THAT FOR YOURSELF. And don't let moronic streamers like cohcarnage, who say that steam is just a place to reviewbomb, tell you otherwise, steam reviews are a blessing for the consumers. Even if some of them are just memes (funny ones at that) you will always find very long a thought-out review at the top of any game.

@johnpatz8395

3 жыл бұрын

Derrick Hayden my point is, Steam and it’s actions have been the target of hate from gamers far years, but as soon as Epic announced their store, the hate immediately shifted and many started viewing Steam as the Holy Messiah of gamers. I’m not a fan of Epic, but do you actually think they release a higher percentage of crap them Steam, a store known for years to be overloaded with asset flips, abandon ware and outright scams?

@WhyAreYouGhe

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnpatz8395 Why would you care about the quality of the games there if you (and probably 99.9999% of people) aren't going to buy it? Because you KNOW its an asset flip etc. from the reviews... I have no love for steam, but the hate towards Epic is justified. They just care about making shady deals with devs (like the ones marketing their game on steam only sell exclusively on epic)to sell their broken games with no fear of users warning people. Besides...why are you comparing Steam game numbers, which are in the tens of thousands, with epic who has maybe hundreds? Obviously Steam is going to have more crap on it just by being so popular. And also in the past years they really cleaned up the store, I haven't seen asset flips/scams for a very long time in my recommended. Competition is good and god knows steam needs some, but Epic store care only about their reputation/ties with developers and treats consumers like dirt.

The funny thing is that this is a remaster of the console version as well, Not a remaster of the PC version. So if you compare them side by side a lot of the detail is stripped out in this version.

@daktaklakpak5059

3 жыл бұрын

Many people don't understand how freaking sad this is. Crysis 1 was a milestone. Still holds up to day (the original). Then they re-release this garbage console port for PC. Totally unworthy of any Fan, and anyone who payed for this crap!

original game had different icons when you pick up weapons. this one just have one for all weapons

Doesn’t even look that much better what the hell.

What may have once been great, looks generic as hell now

The original crysis did infact let you bind the suit modes to individual keys

Here it is 2020 and this game is still trolling high end PC Rigs out there.. Just simply amazing. 👍🏽

Trump 2020

2007 wow i was 17 and a poor student i feel old thanks mac :)

Yes, you COULD lean left and right in the O.G. Crysis, as well as go prone and crawl commando style under cover.

"Let's read the words, the words of the Epic Store" I just fucking lost it!

It running bad is a feature added for nostalgia, takes you back to the good ol' Crysis days. :^>

Thats unfortunate Mac :( I remember when this game was the bench mark. I played this when it came out and had to play it in a combination of high/med graphics. It still dropped frames left and right. I have a rig the same as yours and now, unless they fix that, I can't warrant buying this. That sucks. Thanks for the review! Always could content!

its off the console ports for ps3/360 thats why suit modes work different and no aerial mission or leaning

Few things... Driver update is coming. And when C1 came out, you could only run it on med settings at 720P @30fps with the 9600GT.

Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2021 - Now with Finishing Moves! See that hippopotamus?

Great review and honest as always! Just get the original on GOG. I've seen it on sale for $3-$5 before and they also have Warhead. All of the irritating DRM has been removed as well. Both run great on windows 10/gtx 1080, so a newer card would likely be that much more incredible. There are also mods out there to make them look even more photo realistic, but those games honestly look like they came out last week let alone in 2007 with the graphics maxed out, so no remaster necessary IMO. And yes, the original game HAS a lean feature which is REALLY useful!

You DID run Crysis! Woooow!

@tammushican4823

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, he barely did

I come here to know which game to buy and which ones I'll like. No joke, Mac has a 100% accuracy rate with his suggestions. If he thumbs down, I'll never buy it. If developers manage to see this, keep it in mind. I'm sure there are a few more that come to this channel for this exact purpose. I didn't buy Star Wars Battlefront 2 either...until Mac made a 2nd video saying how it has been improved and is now worth it. And it actually was. Love you Mac! Thanks for the great work!

I still want crysis to be the benchmark of whether your pc was good or not those were the good days

This makes me feel better that its not even on steam yet.

The thing is with the original, is that the devs place their bets on CPU clock speeds increasing exponentially in the near future. It was meant to scale with clock speed. What happened instead was that IPC (instructions per cycle) got better in combination with higher core counts and multithreading. That was a perfectly understandable gamble. Today though? The devs know what the landscape is like today, so not optimising it properly was a choice. It's not as if the highest graphical settings look particularly incredible either, if there's some future tech going on (like full blown raytracing of every kind, some new particle effects or whatever) then fair enough, but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm not sure the top settings are meant to scale with time and new hardware like the original, moreso that they just made it poorly optimised so it can be used to benchmark. Which would be fine if that was clearly communicated as the intent.

Remember when the game came out, my PC was under spec but being a tinkerer and without OC'ing, I was able to run it on max settings and it looked fantastic. Put a lot of hours into SP and some in MP it was great. The second instalment, though looked better, ran better and was all 'round more interesting, and an average PC could run it. Just goes to show that great graphics don't require top line hardware. The only franchises I've ever come across that required an upgrade with each new release are the Total War franchise and original "IL-2" flight sims.